Time, change and construction
On some contributions to a modern reconstruction of the metaphysics of time
Ph.D. thesis. Niels Viggo Hansen, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Aarhus




 






 



(Key concepts)
TITLES

 



(PROBLEM)
1. introduction

(IRREVERSIBILITY)
2. process, substance and irreversibility

(PROCESS)
3. The development of an idea of process

(ENTROPY)
4. process thought, teleology and thermodynamics

(HISTORICITY)
5. interpretations of the historicity of objects

(RELATIVITY)
6. spacetime and becoming

(CONSTRUCTION)
7. resources of radical affirmative constructivism

(SPECULATION)
8. deriving nature from first principles

(ADVENTURE)
9. conclusion

(POLITICS OF TIME)
10. reintroduction



A. synposis in Danish



B. bibliography